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But Alliance chair insists university plan will move forward regardless of success of fund-raising

Rumors, anxiety, deadlock and a fund-raising campaign have spooked many longtime backers of the plan to build a 6,000-student, $400 million university campus in Payson.
However, backers of the four-year quest to build a university here insist that Payson will have a university within two years — even if it’s not Arizona State University.
In fact, the Rim Country Educational Alliance (SLE) board at its last meeting voted to seek a development firm to draw up a master plan for the campus.